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How Books Will Become Machines
Lamartine on the future of books (1831)
The future of books in the 1830s. ‘Before this century shall end, journalism will be the whole press - the whole human thought. Thought will spread across the world with the rapidity of light, instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood. It will blanket the…
The future of books in the 1930s
The future of books in the 1930s. This is how Paul Oltet in the 1930s was de- scribing the future reading desktop ‘The worktable does not hold any book. In- stead, there is a screen and a telephone. All the books are far away, in a huge building (...)’ cited in (Levie 2006).
The future of books in the 1880s
The future of books in the 1880s. ‘Many books and stories may not see the light of print al all; they will go into the hands of their readers, or hearers rather, as phonograms’ Hubert, Philippe in an 1889 essay in the Atlantic Monthly. The same year, Edward Bellamy predicted in…